Named Entity Results, October 4th, 1861 AD

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Jackson's brigade — separation between him and them.
Centreville, Oct. 4, 1861. Editors of Dispatch:
--I have not been in the writing way for some time, but cannot refrain from describing a scene which occurred here to-day.
It is known that, since his promotion, General Thomas Jackson has been ordered to the command of the Northwestern division; and, on to-day, he bid farewell to the gallant brigade which had won for itself and him such undying fame on the plains of Manassas.
This brigade consists of the 2d, 4th, 5th, 27th, and 33d Virginia regiments.
All of these regiments, except the 5th, were present, that being on picket.
The writer of this article never expects to witness a more touching scene.
Drawn up in close columns stood the subaltern officers and brave men who had rushed with loud cheers into the very thickest of the bloody twenty-first of July day, and opposed with the combined courage and discipline of veterans the advance of the confident foe — the